Category: Cat. 3 – Activism

Ch. 61 – Year of the Shark ACTIVISTS PROTEST TO BAN SHARK FINS IN CHINATOWN A group of local community organizations and activists came together in Chinatown Saturday morning in support of a ban on shark fins. Shark fin soup has been served as a delicacy for centuries in China and elsewhere and is a…

Ch. 59 – Runaway Global Warming Has Begun July 6, 2008, Tuesday CARE-5 field Journal #1 On July 1, Tuesday – Canada Day – I set out from Vancouver on the first leg of my Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #5 (CARE-5), scheduled for 6 months. With me for this leg is HOPE team member…

Ch. 58 – Year of the Deer When I was on my CARE-tours, I participated and assisted in many local campaigns, and instigated a few of my own. In doing so, I met and worked with some of the greatest grassroots activists across the land. I stress the word “grassroots”, to which things like the…

Ch. 56 – Covert in Shimonoseki Technology in and of itself is neither good nor evil. It is our application of it that makes that determination. Take ships, for example. They are just man-made objects that float on water, with some means of propulsion. There is nothing intrinsically good or evil about them. What makes…

Ch. 55 – Undercover in the Cove 2004 was, like other years, crammed, just a little more so. While the first Compassion for Animals Road Expedition (CARE-1 tour) spanned August 2003 and April 2004, and while I spoke at the National Animal Rights Conference in Washington DC for the first time in July 2004, I…

Ch. 54 – Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #1 Between 2003 and 2010, I conducted seven Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE-tours – CARE-1 thru CARE-7), each covering 30-45 states in 5-8 months, all solo except for CARE-1. On April 2, 2017, Shannon Wright and I wedded at Lake Tahoe, immediately after which we launched…

Ch. 52 – Makah Whale Hunt In 1998, the Makah Indian band in northwest Washington state began making noise of wanting to revive whaling, which had been discontinued for 70 years. In other words, three generations of Makahs had not needed nor experienced nor depended on the tradition, so much so that they had forgotten how…

Ch. 46 – Champion of the Bengal Tiger My third expedition to India, in 1999, was part-bitter, part-sweet, but all memorable. The first bitter part I did not even taste until I had returned to Canada, when my mother told me that my sister Wendy, who was in Hong Kong, had been brain-injured by a…

Ch. 45 – Champions of The Wild In the summer of 1997, I received a phone call from Chris Buyere, CEO of Omni Film and producer of the highly successful TV wildlife documentary series “Champions of The Wild”, which as it happened ran for five seasons on Discovery Channel in twenty countries from 1998 to…

Ch. 44 – My Year of the Tiger Being a boots-on-the-ground tiger preservationist has its benefits. If I didn’t go to India and work at the Kanha and Bandhavgarh tiger reserves over the four year period of 1996-1999, I would never have witnessed this amazing jungle drama in person. And I doubt that even National…